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![]() I could have achieved a smoother finish with the Photoshop image, but instead chose to give it a textured airbrush feel.Ī close up of the Photoshop face detail. Photoshop is on the left, Illustrator on the right. Here is the final side by side comparison. They were copied and pasted into an Illustrator document. The image was traced in a 300 dpi Photoshop file using the pen tool. Here is the original Wrigley’s girl to be used as a study. I’ve always loved the Wrigley’s series and figured that the young girl would be a perfect sample to recreate in both Photoshop and Illustrator. Shepard became famous for his airbrushed posters for Wrigley’s Gum. Prior to the outbreak of World War 2, Binder emigrated to America, and there he mentored Otis Shepard. He was famous for his 1939 World’s Fair poster and Fortune Magazine covers, among many other designs. One poster artist that caught my attention as a youngster was Austrian poster artist Joseph Binder. ![]() You learn their thought process and how they must have approached a design. Poster artist Davis Lance Goines recommended doing this and remarked that the artist being copied becomes part of you. sometimes I’ll take an image that I admire and replicate it in either program. In between jobs I like to play around with both programs and develop new techniques. I’m very familiar with Illustrator, but rarely used it for commissioned jobs. Over the years Photoshop has been my tool of choice.
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